Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-08-16
SUMNER GIRLS MANNERS.
They Seem to Have sadly ID eter
i0rated of Late Years.

! am just returned from a popular
frotel at II certain beautiful collegiate
town in an eastern State, among the
notable Berkshire hills, says writer
in the New York Mail. The young
persons stopping here were presuma-
bly, of the better class, for they had
come avowedly for the purpose of
attending the commencement OF the
college.
| arrived at high noon.
A picturesque group greeted my ar
rival-pretty girls with their bold, wide
eyes, unflinchingly meeting mine as
l dsmounted from the coach. One,
with mans cap set jauntily upon her
head; another munching candy; a
third throwing little pellets of paper
at the defenseless head of the young
fellow in u striped jacket who sat with
his feet in the air against pillow be-
side her.
' l registered.
had chanced to be the only arrival
by this particular train. And my back
was scarcely turned upon the office
desk than the troupe, some fifteen or
twenty in number, were scanning the
page had modestly signed, pushing
and scrambling to obtain first view
of the latest name inscribed thereon.
Regardless of the fact that | stood
glancing over the letters that | had
found awaiting me, their comments
Were obligingly fluent and perfectly
audible.
"Hello, Jessie, he's foreigner~
ooh, my! is he ?"
"Now. Molly, there's a chance for
you to air your French"
'Not much % responded Molly, who
at this moment was tossing the bor-
rowed cap in the air and striving to
catch it with her pretty white teeth.
ooh, come on /; | don't care snap
for light menu cried Jessie, pulling
an attendant cavalier by the arm.
"Oh, say, now" returned this young
Chesterfield, "Jess, you can't give me
that; | wasn't born yesterday"
"PsHAw! DON'T BE BABY,
Tom. Come on, girls, come on let's
have another game of tennis before
dinner"
"All right" in a brisk chorus.
A spring, a dash, pell-mell. pushing
and squeezing past each other, and
presently their loud shouts arose from
the court, to the evident distraction of
few of another species of girl who
sat upon the porch quietly chatting
and reading.
After making a hasty toilet l came
down to one of the parlors, en- route to
the dining room, but, even overcome
as | was by hunger, my steps were
arrested on the threshold, and | sat
down. A young girl, of perhaps
seventeen to twenty, with very small
waist and wisp of light hair tied
with blue ribbon, surmounted by a
little hat, sat upon the centre-table of
the room, her feet neither small nor
pretty Ga strange anomaly Tor an
American not to have sucl. }, dangled
about foot from the floor, and these
she swung rapidly back and forth
as she talked to four young fellows
who were grouped around her,
all smoking, all regardless of the pres
ence of other ladies, to>whom the
smoke was very patiently 4 kagreeable,
and of the fact that cia r. were not
permitted in this apartment. This
young girl suddenly pulled the short
curls of the boy nearest to her, who
was reading.
"Oh, say now," he exclaimed with
out raising his eyelids, whats the
matter with you?'
Nothing; only its getting awfully
slow here; do put up that book; wish
| was back in N'York."
And did she come from New York?
itnt
placed her as the apprentice of the
village dressmaker, who, having,
doubtless, some young relative in the
college, thus found, for brief space,
tho doors of fashionable hotel open
to receive her.
"NIercy upon us !" cried a second
young Miss, who rolled upon the
sofa, Il don't. told mommer
cmamma, | suppose) this very
morning she wouldn't catch me going
back to the city for a month to come;
she needn't think it !"
"Oh, these horrid flies!" screamed
number one. "Say, you,. Jack
Brown" giving the so-named young
gentleman's volume brisk kick with
the tip of her boot; "shut up that
mo, | won't" returned Mr.. Brown,
cody picking up his literature.
"YoU'RE REAL MEAN, 1 DECLARE!
Isn't he ?" throwing her hat playfully
at the face Of the youth at her other
hand; isn't he, Dandy?"
Dandy laughs and fires the hat back
to it's owner.
Goodness me what horrid thing
you are Say, go and play us waltz,
Dan, won't you?"
"Oh, yes, do" said the other girl,
with alacrity.
And in a moment more they were
waltzing, the men smoking, the girls
giggling, the other occupants OF the
room enduring the impertinence OF
their noise, tobacco and the contact of
their flirting skirts as they brushed
past them. My hunger had evapo-
rated.
crossed to the corridor. Two little
girls of eight and ten stood lounging
over Il table and pack OF cards, verit-
able cards. y
"Say you can't play euchre can
your" asked the elder, patronizingly,
as she shuffled the pack with the dex-
teritv of a proficient.
"No," returned the junior, with a
curl of the baby lip. 81 don't really
care for any game but poker. I've won
lots of candy playing poker" :,
turned away-a little what we call
sick at heart and as did SO charm
ingly pretty child of perhaps twenty,
fell into the room, attended by an ell
derly lady. She sank into a chair.
Her hair was disarranged and fallen
below her slim vast, her hat hung by
string, and her neat riding boot was
in full view. :,
81 tell you had just a high old
time. l nearly died with that old